Otherworldly Skeleton

The snow was getting thicker and thicker. Fortunately, Ke Erwen carried a sufficient number of various leather boots, and finally did not let Lu Yan's red bones freeze and break the bones of his feet. Thank you again, he really doesn't like taking advantage of being silent.

"If you can find a soul gap as big as Shuibei Town, all your investment will be rewarded dozens of times, so you don't have to thank me." Ke Erwen said, but Lu Yan still remembered the old fox in his heart. Lu Yan suddenly discovered that there are quite a few kind-hearted skeletons, such as Zoe, Kerwin, and Karen Val... But why does he always have a slight resistance to skeletons?

Ke Erwen's mood is getting better and better. He is still looking for stone bones along the way. Most of the stone bones mark the position of the new soul gap. The shallow lines indicate that it was born in a short time. Ke Wen Erwin knew that there were not many bone-judging masters who could recognize this pattern, and the possibility of this new soul gap master was very high.

The only thing that can't be explained is that the growth rate of the soul gap is too fast, almost reaching the level of Shuibei Town within a few months. Ke Erwen revised his original judgment, and the growth rate of this new soul gap is that of an ordinary soul gap. More than 5 times the gap.

In any case, Lu Yan and Ke Erwen discussed passing through Guzajian Mountain first. It is also a strange thing that there is no soul gap in that big battlefield.

9 days after leaving Heishui City, 7 days after leaving Shuibei Town, and 4 days after Lu Yan's first encounter with Pangu Bingdi, in the afternoon, Lu Yan and his party consisted of nearly [-] skeletons and a human. Arrived at Guzama Mountain.

Aye's good health surprised Lu Yan. During the nearly 170-kilometer journey, he had to walk an average of more than 40 kilometers a day. He kept praising Lu Yan for being a good slave. Apart from being a little grumpy and ugly, he was really a slave that was very suitable for taking out.

A Ye ignored Ke Erwen's evaluation, and he kept checking the ground along the way, breaking away the rotten soil and checking the ground. Of course, he would not judge the bones. Lu Yan didn't ask him what he was doing, and he didn't take the initiative to report.

Before entering Guzama Mountain, I saw a mountain of broken bones at the mouth of the valley. The heavy snow was blocked by Guzama Mountain. There was very little snow in the valley, and most of the bones remained in their original state. Looking from a distance Unable to see the end, Lu Yan seemed to smell the tragic smell of burning bones that day again.

Ke Wenwen and Aye also stared blankly for a while, and then began to inspect the work separately. Ke Wen ordered his men to dig up the broken bones to find the remnants of the bone soul hidden deep under the pile of broken bones. Because the battlefield is too big, And they are afraid that other leaders will get the news and sneak attack, so the winner will always retreat in a hurry. Even if they send war bones to collect the remaining bone souls afterwards, the fish that slip through the net is inevitable, and these remaining bone souls are easy to lose. To breed soul gaps, Kerwin first wanted to see if these bone souls were still there.

Ah Ye borrowed a bone-chopping knife and tapped on the rock walls on both sides, not knowing what he was up to.

Lu Yan ordered the Red Bones to form a group of six to spread out and search the valley. This place is still very dangerous, and Lu Yan didn't want to be attacked by any army or wild bandits.

The latest to spot the problem was Kerwin.

"It's so strange, the bone souls here have been washed too clean." After digging for more than two hours, Ke Erwen took Lu Yan to look at the piles of bones that had been excavated. With the efforts of all Ke Erwen's men, , a five-meter-wide and 30-meter-long passage was cleared out, and all the broken bones reached the sides, exposing the black ground.

After such a large open space was cleared, Ke Erwen didn't even find a bone soul.

This is very unreasonable.

"Boss Ke, what do you think is the reason?" Lu Yan really had no idea about this strange phenomenon.

Ke Erwen also kept shaking his head, pacing back and forth on the cleared rotten soil: "I still want to clean up a section, and I have never seen such a clean battlefield. If I don't solve this mystery, I will I’m always a little uneasy.”

"Okay." Lu Yan nodded in agreement: "Stay here for one night, and leave tomorrow morning."

Because he was afraid of attracting the attention of passing skeletons, Lu Yan did not dare to light white wooden torches in a big way. He only agreed to burn individual bonfires in some caves in the valley. Cracked by the cold wind that crosses the valley.

Ke Erwen has been overseeing the work wrapped in a leather coat, and the old fox is really willing to endure hardships when he is looking for wealth.

Because of the dangerous terrain, Lu Yan didn't plan to go into the dark tent anymore. He found a place sheltered from the wind and began to practice the wind dance. In fact, he never stopped practicing spear skills during the whole journey.

Just played it twice, Ah Ye came to find him.

"My lord, I found a good thing!" Ah Ye was sweating on his forehead, and his body, hands, and bone-chopping knife were covered with lumps of rotten dirt and sludge, but his face was full of joy that Lu Yan had never seen before. expression.

Lu Yan put away the white bee and asked calmly, "Aye, what did you find?"

"My lord, please come with me." Ah Ye signaled Lu Yan to follow him, and came straight to the edge of the knuckle-shaped cliff at the end of Guzajian Mountain. Lu Yan saw a large piece of dug-out mountain on the mountain wall, revealing the golden yellow inside. s things.

"Is this gold?" Lu Yan walked into the mountain wall in surprise, and saw that under the rotten soil that had been dug half a meter away, there were continuous pieces of yellow stones, with rough texture and bumps on the surface, which felt cold and slippery to the touch. .

"No, this is copper ore." Ah Ye said happily: "Yang copper and yin iron, there are such a large area of ​​copper mines on the surface, which means that there is likely to be a large iron mine inside this bone mountain."

"You still know the art of finding ore?" Lu Yan wondered, it turned out that Ah Ye had been beating around for so many days to find iron ore.

"Of course, I have been searching for iron ore with my grandfather in the grassland and desert since I was 4 years old." When it comes to searching for iron, Aye can't hide his complacent expression: "I have long felt that although the surface of the Skull Continent is covered by rot , but it should not be too short of iron ore. The reason why it is always said that the skeleton continent is short of iron is mainly because the skeletons do not pay attention to iron weapons at all. The chaotic land is full of wars and wild bandits, and people who are restricted in freedom It is impossible for human beings to carry out prospecting work under such conditions."

Lu Yan pressed the copper ore inlaid in the mountain, and there was a icy cold feeling on his finger bones: "Iron...is it really useful, especially when dealing with strong bones and riding bones?"

"It's useful!" Aye was stunned for a moment before saying: "I heard from my grandfather that the blacksmiths of the Lan Empire have a miraculous extraction process. They can extract the purest steel. There are many types of steel, and they can be mixed into many kinds of steel. Substances, even magical ones, make weapons of unrivaled destructive power."

Lu Yan thought of the York white on the Vardan Grassland, strolling among millions of carrion-eating white wolves, only saw a flash of lightning when he swung his sword, and then several wolf corpses that had been cut into several pieces. York White's martial arts is one aspect, but the saber in his hand must also have an extremely sharp edge, so it is possible to create such an amazing effect.

"Ah Ye, do you know that kind of iron making technology?"

"I... no... I was taken captive to Skull Continent when I was 13 years old." Ah Ye's face was flushed, and he gasped for a moment, then suppressed his emotions and continued: "But I can try, I You can think about it, grandpa said that I am a natural blacksmith, and I will definitely create the most powerful weapon on this continent!"

"And let me kill all the skeletons with it?"

"Yes, the skeleton killed my grandfather and destroyed my homeland and tribe. I can never go back. I want to take these skeletons to be buried with me. I want them to go to hell... woo... woo woo." Ah Ye As he spoke, he squatted down, his muscular arms folded in front of his chest, his big callused hands covered his face, and let out a sobbing sound.

Lu Yan walked gently to Ah Ye's side, and the raised hand bone rested on the top of Ah Ye's back. He hesitated for a long time, and finally did not take the picture.

"My lord, I found something!" Just as Lu Yan was hesitating whether it was reasonable for him to use the identity of a skeleton to comfort the humans who vented their emotions, the red bone with two rows of jagged legs came back, and he brought another amazing information.

Five minutes later, Lu Yan and Ke Erwen left a small number of skeletons to garrison, and then led their elite men out of the valley of Guzama Mountain, along the north side of the mountain, to the other side of the valley.

"Tell Boss Ke Erwen about the general situation." Lu Yan, Red Bone with jagged legs, and Ke Erwen, who was very interested, walked at the front of the team. Lu Yan ordered Hong Bone to explain the situation just now.

"My lord." Serrated-legged red bone nodded politely to Ke Erwen and said: "When we advanced to the center of the valley, we found that there were not only our group of skeletons here, but also many skeleton secret whistles sweeping back and forth in the middle of the valley. They didn't go far, but they locked the entrance to the deep valley firmly, as if they were protecting something, because they didn't dare to scare the snake, so they came here to ask the adults to decide."

"Could it be the team sent by Fenrir to collect the remaining bone souls?" Lu Yan asked.

Ke Erwen shook his head: "No, it doesn't take a lot of trouble to collect one or two remaining bone souls, and there are very few leaders who are still collecting bone souls half a year after the battle. Now that winter is coming early, Fen Rui Er has fewer soldiers, so he should be more anxious than Lord Zexis to send troops to collect the whitewood forest.

"Is that the wild bandit?"

"Wild bandits are not too interested in the battlefield. Bone souls cannot be directly ingested. They must be thrown into the soul gap to expand the range of the soul gap. The benefits here are too small for the wild bandits who have been killed." Ke Erwen once again denied this view.

Lu Yan knew that what Ke Erwen said was reasonable, so of course he would not be angry. While listening to the wind, he asked in a low voice, "Then what do you think, what kind of skeleton is it?"

"It's more likely to risk your life to steal a few bone souls on the battlefield and go back to fill the wandering skeletons in your village." Kerwin said: "If the wandering skeletons are rare and can settle down, they will be very concerned about the soul gaps in their villages." With feelings, it is possible to take risks and do something for the village, and there are even third-level cities that have grown up on the Skull Continent, and you can imagine how much the skeletons in that village love their home.”

This time Lu Yan shook his head: "But my subordinate Honggu said that the opponent has a very strict patrol track. If it is a wandering skeleton, I am afraid that it does not have such a good quality?"

Ke Erwen said calmly: "Then there is only one possibility..."

As soon as he said this, Lu Yan suddenly stopped, his eyes looked at the darkness ahead, his face was full of surprise... the induction from the vassal War Bone Grunt appeared.